My name is Paco Navarro, I trained at the School of Arts and Crafts, my favorite teacher being the Valencian artist Vicente Bruño. He undoubtedly transmitted his love for the sea to me, which he poured into the African Atlantic from which our beloved islands emerged.

Poster artist, pastel and watercolor painter, oil is his favorite technique, doing it initially with a brush and finally evolving towards the spatula, thus giving it greater intensity in his work.

Awarded on numerous occasions with his posters in outdoor competitions and finalist of the disappeared ‘Ciudad de Las Palmas’ prize, Paco Navarro always captured the intense blue of the Canary Sea in his art. He dedicated his first canvases to Las Canteras beach, with its children swimming or playing ball, or with the solitary beach bathed in a hypnotic color both in the sand and in the skies and sea, becoming known as "the Canarian Sorolla".

Later the figures disappeared and he began to paint the seascape with the grandeur of Nature in solitude. Sometimes with beaches and cliffs where the ocean beats furiously between the blows of a raging foam, and others with a calm sea where a solitary boat can be seen rocking on the horizon.

Later he tackled the theme of the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, always remaining faithful to his beloved sea, which over the years he has captured from various perspectives both from the heights of the city and from different places and times of day, mainly at sunset.

Dissatisfied with limiting himself to Gran Canaria, the beaches of Fuerteventura, as well as different perspectives of Tenerife and El Hierro and their most notable places such as cave houses and their bewitching landscapes, have been lucky enough to be forever reflected in his already emblematic art.

And of course, always the sea, Paco Navarro’s Canary Sea.